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Angela | Report | 7 Sep 2005 21:55 |
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can anyone advise me grt grandfather lived haughton denton were will his birth certifcate and marriage certficate beheld manchester or tameside angie |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 7 Sep 2005 22:34 |
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The certificate isn't created until certification of a record is requested. The central record is as Alan describes (except, I think it's Southport not Stockport), but there are regional/county offices which can also issue valid certificates based on the records they hold - from which the GRO records are compiled quarterly. The fees are the same, the service varies enormously: from very helpful to outright refusal if it's only for tree research, and from return-of-post fast to astonishingly slow. Christine |
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Richard in Perth | Report | 8 Sep 2005 03:30 |
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Denton Urban District (which includes Haughton) is now part of Tameside (it was moved from Lancs to Cheshire in 1974). You can search the BMD records held by Tameside Register Office at www.cheshirebmd.org.uk - their index is incomplete but Tameside seems to have good coverage. If you find what you're looking for, you can download an order form from the site. Note that as explained above, this is an alternative means of getting a certificate, compared with using the GRO which maintains a national index. Generally, the local RO's records are more ''primary'' than the GRO's, as the latter was a copy of the local record. Also, quite a few records never made it from the local offices to the GRO. The index on CheshireBMD gives you more info than the GRO index - i.e. sub-district is also shown (Denton in your case). However, only the year of the event is given, compared with the year and quarter on the GRO index. Richard |
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